software-center crashed with AttributeError in on_menu_edit_activate(): 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'get_view_widget'

[Matthew Paul Thomas]

Apport says:

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: software-center 4.1.23.6
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-12.19-generic 3.0.4
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-generic i686
NonfreeKernelModules: wl
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu1
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue Sep 27 14:28:49 2011
ExecutablePath: /usr/share/software-center/software-center
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release i386 (20101007)
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.7
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/software-center
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
PythonArgs: ['/usr/bin/software-center']
SourcePackage: software-center
Title: software-center crashed with AttributeError in on_menu_edit_activate(): 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'get_view_widget'
Traceback:
 Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "/usr/share/software-center/softwarecenter/ui/gtk3/app.py", line 792, in on_menu_edit_activate
     self.active_pane = vm.get_view_widget(vm.get_active_view())
 AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'get_view_widget'
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-09-20 (7 days ago)
UserGroups:

[Apport retracing service (apport)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this crash and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular crash has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug #661681, so is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Please continue to report any other bugs you may find.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Robert Roth (evfool)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug #861862, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may find.